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Basketball - NBC SportsTue, 31 Mar 2015 21:46:50 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: klownboyhttp://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/06/28/are-the-brooklyn-nets-contenders-now-lets-not-get-ahead-of-ourselves/comment-page-1/#comment-212504
Mon, 01 Jul 2013 03:20:47 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-212504Well, you can repent and get those 5 minutes back lol…
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Sun, 30 Jun 2013 01:44:08 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-212139“High IQ nba fans”: where?
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Sun, 30 Jun 2013 01:42:08 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-212137“Some folks look for answers,
others look for fights.”
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Sun, 30 Jun 2013 01:40:49 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-212136“Let’s not pump the brakes” is appropriate considering today’s vehicles come with anti-lock brakes you don’t have to pump. Translation: the Nets are Grandpa time!
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Sat, 29 Jun 2013 20:29:44 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-212060As I say in the post, the Nets should be better and this was a good financial move for them. This was a good trade. I’m just not sold they are true title contenders.
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Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:58:30 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211976If they can keep the three new players on the floor maybe they can contend but that is a BIG if. These guys are old and an untested coach makes the odds tough.
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Sat, 29 Jun 2013 06:10:58 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211943as of june 29, 2013…the Nets are contenders.
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Sat, 29 Jun 2013 03:12:35 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211903There is 0 reason to believe J. Kidd is going to be a good coach. Please spare me that “coach on the floor” crap. that’s media talk at best. He has had no coaching experience, and the line that Lawrence Frank is going to help is rich. Frank is a terrible coach. He’s not going to help any.

Let’s just be honest. The Nets dumped Wallace’s contract for some Jersey sales. Paul Pierce is one of my favorite players ever but he’s on his last legs and KG even moreso. Humphries was an expiring tossed in to take Wallace. Pierce and KG will be teaching Kidd more than he’ll be teaching them, and that’s what the picks are for. They messed up getting those picks later too ; by 2018 that first is going to be extremely valuable.

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Sat, 29 Jun 2013 02:46:33 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211898Not to mention the west I mean unless Wade and Bosh find a time machine they can win it but it’ll be incredibly tough. Don’t just think because you beat the Bulls 2 years ago with Rose you’ll do it again they’re way better now and I’m not even a Bulls fan, just logical unlike most Heat fans.
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Sat, 29 Jun 2013 02:41:25 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211896Pencil in the Heat really? If the Heat stand pat and don’t make some changes on their front line while teams around them improve they are not a guarantee.

They still have to worry about Chicago who will be very string next year. They add the former MVP, a shooter in Snell which was what they needed, and Deng and Noah are healthy and they aren’t last year.

Indiana is getting better plus Granger will be back, Brooklyn will be tough at least. Keep thinking its a guarantee the Heat win you look really dumb and oblivious. The only way they get by the Bulls is if the refs hand them wins on a silver platter.

They can’t stand pat and win it all again no way, not with all these younger more athletic teams getting better and better come back to earth Heat fans it’s a nice place.

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Sat, 29 Jun 2013 02:34:22 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211894Rings don’t lie… To be the man you have to beat the man.

Most basketball fans can come up with reasons why any team can beat another NBA team on paper. The bigs did hurt the Heat in the playoffs, but in the end the Heat are back to back champs, record books don’t show should have or could have lost.

The Nets should be a fun team to watch this season, tons of talent. But until Lebron and Wade are knocked off the top of the hill, its all wishful thinking.

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Sat, 29 Jun 2013 02:14:56 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211888Don’t forget the egos involved…this was a somewhat-young and developing team and now they bring in three fossils who will demand minutes (if they stay healthy). And with no first rounders in the future at least for now. Shades of the Packers trading for QB John Hadl in 1974.
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Sat, 29 Jun 2013 01:26:55 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211871Shameless plug. It’s bad enough I wasted 5 mins of time reading this blog, but now there’s people on here doing self-promotion. Pacers still can’t beat Miami. LOL
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Sat, 29 Jun 2013 01:20:27 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211864Another Kurt Helin yawn article. The “old age” argument doesn’t fly and never will. Young teams don’t win it’s a fact. Veteran teams win. If youth was a factor, then the Warriors, Grizzles and Pacers would of been in the Finals. Did u not watch this season’s playoffs? Two veteran teams (Heat, Spurs) were in the 2013 NBA Finals. It’s been veteran teams (Spurs, Pistons, Lakers, Mavs, Celtics, Heat) the past 7yrs in the ECF, WCF and NBA Finals. It’s baffling that some in the media as well as fans still buying these false “old age” arguments.

I have a strange feeling if Garnett was accquired by the Heat, Pacers or Bulls Kurt Helin would be praising the move. And for people to assume the Bulls will be better, because Rose is returning is again false. No one knows how Rose will look or the Bulls roster. Who’s to say if the Pacers will be better? Will David West return to the Pacers, because he can get more money else where. So if I was Kurt Helin or any other member on here, you might not want to get ahead of yourself.

Remember, remember
the Nets’ hype from November,
The coalition of scrubs and fines for flops,
I know no reason,
Why Lopez last season,
Averaged, less rebounds than blocks,
Dreams of success, Dreams of glory,
Kept their hopes alive,
The first round was so gory,
And the Nets could no longer thrive,
There was an ailing foe a withered fo,
For that did not matter,
As Son of Robin showed in 7,
The nets inNately are all chatter,
A continuous hype,
Parallel to only the eagles,
Jay-z’s ugliness is a type,
That shouldn’t even be legal,
With a payroll so high
I can only classify as sodomy,
But Prokorov is an okay guy,
His stupidity is stimulating our economy,
So what has changed with the nets from the times we remember,
Still hyped, still mediocre, so hop off of their member.

– My boy wrote it, I thought i’d share lol

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Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:43:57 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211846Wow man, I usually only read the NFL posts, but man, these Knicks fans are so jealous of Brooklyn and their free spending owner. Omg, it’s great…talk all you want about Brooklyn but when I walk around the city the only nba garb I see is Brooklyn Nets stuff. Also. When was the last time the Knicks even made it to the finals???? Nets couldn’t make it in jersey, but now that their in Brooklyn it’s over for NYK
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Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:35:15 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211844The nets are NOT last years lakers. It was the media that said the lakers would be great — not the high IQ nba fans. Kobe is a nightmare health wise…Nash is really banged up & frankly, Howard is just a loser wherever he goes…this is a much better situation, pierce & KG don’t have to be their old selves…it’s more about their attitudes and the fact they’ve won before..
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Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:32:25 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211843Anyone calling this a bad move for Nets is quite simply just drinking the haterade. The Nets were already in “win now” mode, and now they are even better. I agree that it most likely won’t culminate in a championship but it will bring them as close to it as they were going to get. With that said, the Nets filled in major needs and are now on the tier of teams competing for a championship below the Heat. After their 2 year window is closed, they will have cap room for big free agents. Don’t see how this is a bad trade for them. Celtics meanwhile can now rebuild in peace. Win-win.
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Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:27:57 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211842Here’s the thing:
The Heat are only as good as the health of their core. And, Dwyane Wade has not been super-healthy of late. I know you can’t build a season based on the expectation that an opposing player may not be healthy, but if i were the Heat, i also wouldn’t bet the farm on Wade’s health. So, assuming Wade is not at 100% come playoff time, yes, the Nets are serious challengers. I’m not ignoring the fact that you can’t count on the Nets’ health either. I’m just sayin’. The Heat are not guaranteed to field the same team at the same strength next year. Besides that, if Battier didn’t go berserk in game 7, it might have been a different story anyway.

Not only do the Nets have Garnett (who i despise), but Lopez is the kind of big man that the Heat can’t handle. Kidd needs to manage Pierce’s minutes and develop role players.

Pierce, Johnson, and a renewed Williams are a nice trio.

But, yeah, they’ve only got one year to make hay.

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Fri, 28 Jun 2013 23:31:27 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211827Let’s see Sloan coached through the best era of basketball ever…made the playoffs literally every year …got to the finals twice where he was beat by the GOAT. Uh, not a slouch man.
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Fri, 28 Jun 2013 23:29:32 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211826Still not contenders in the East. Pacers still better.http://theklowntimes.net/2013/06/28/the-nets-with-garnett-and-pierce-not-enough-to-crack-easts-elite/
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Fri, 28 Jun 2013 22:46:08 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211811Ray Allen was smart to get our of that sinking ship early. Now, the rest are watching him win Championships!!
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Fri, 28 Jun 2013 22:43:15 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211809HEAT all day long.
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Fri, 28 Jun 2013 22:04:48 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211796Nets are now contenders for possible home-court in the first round of the playoffs… Congrats Brooklyn!
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Fri, 28 Jun 2013 21:22:35 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211772i can see rondo choking kris humphries in practice now…
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Fri, 28 Jun 2013 20:59:02 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211754So what you’re saying is that Kidd can’t create the same Utah scheme for D. Williams ? He can , he will. Kidd will tweak Williams’s game and take it to the next level.With Lopez and KG the Nets have a great inside game, D.Williams will get tons of open looks. So will everyone else.Biggest problem Kidd will have is keeping everyone happy with enough minutes and selling great Defense( which KG and Paul will enforce in the locker room, yes that means you Joe)
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Fri, 28 Jun 2013 20:45:47 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211743Will the Nets be contenders? Yes, the Nets will be contend with the Atlanta Hawks for the 4th or 5th spot in the playoffs. Either way, they will play each other in a most uninteresting first round series.
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Fri, 28 Jun 2013 18:52:26 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=665516#comment-211683This is a short-term fix to try and fill seats in a new arena. Nothing more, nothing less. The window here is remarkably short FOR THIS GROUP, but by unloading Wallace and Humphries, they’re positioning themselves to have a chance to build something good down the road. If I’m a Celtics fan on the other hand, I’m looking for Danny Ainge’s head on a platter. What was this idiot thinking?
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